What Pen Did You Get Today?

[skrutt]

Got in the mail a white Lamy Safari. Looks really nice, with EF nib. Tried it with red ink (Private Reserve, Dakota red) and it looks and feels real nice! Much softer then the F nib I have on my other Safari.

[DonaldKelly]

A Lamy Safari in Yellow with a Medium, Couldn't get a Studio with a medium, so spent another £15 on a Safari instead, can never go wrong with Safaris'. Also bought a set of T10's in black, Lamy ink is quite nice if I'm honest.

[ajcoleman]

I received a Parker 45 Flighter, gold trim, medium point, and practically new. 45's are one of my favorites, and this one is very sharp looking. I put Noodler's Borealis in for the first fill, and it is writing very nicely. I am not crazy about the slide converter, but it will do for now.

[sexauerw]

Wednesday I received a beautiful blue Waterman Exception with a fine nib, it was the slim model, from FPN member John Cullen. I inked it right away and have been using it daily since. It's a great writer, very smooth with a nice wet yet fine line. John sold it because the way the section transitions from round at the nib end to square at the body end didn't fit his hand very well. That doesn't seem to bother me at all, in fact it seems to help me keep the pen properly aligned to the paper. In any event, I just love the way it writes and it's a keeper, right up there with my Binderized italic Charleston. Thank you John!

[jniforat]

two alvin draft tech pencils, and four sanford extend pencils....can't believe i found the Sanfords!

[meblamy]

Two from the Supershow:

 

Diplomat Balance in blue and white, and the splurge of the day, a Visconti Homo Sapiens:

 

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http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l25/mbohannon/Pens/_MG_1021.jpg

[79spitfire]

Three pens: Sheaffer balance in ebony pearl with feather touch #5 nib $25

 

Esterbrook J in red with the elusive 9128 nib $10!

Esterbrook j in black with a 2968 nib

 

All found in the wild in Santa Cruz area shops! It was my lucky day!(weekend)

 

Nibs in the UC now, will be posting impressions on how they write after resacing....

[dexaco]

  A Teal Blue, UK-made, medium-nibbed, Parker 51. Beautifully smooth, and really nice to hold - it suits my lefty underwriter grip. Now I begin to see why the pen has such a following. Colo(u)r me happy!

 

Derick

[Flaneurette]

Yesterday I bought an Austrian Vintage fountain pen with a partly hidden nib; brand Memo Casanova, I guess from the 1950s. Colour pink-ish. She's a beauty and she writes very well, too. The other pens are jealous

[lws]

Package from The Writing Desk arrived today...

 

http://imgur.com/oC0Ny.jpg

 

Luckily, Anna and Martin filled the box with a whole bunch of packing peanuts, so everything arrived in one piece. Picked up an F and EF nib for my Al-Star (writes like a new pen!), and my brother's birthday present, another Al-Star.

[LuckyDog10]

Two pens in a week for me, a total of four new pens this week in the household...that is a personal record for hubby and me!

 

Trip #1, Saturday - Another Pilot VP (medium nib, black carbonesque) for my husband. He talked me into a Cross Sauvage, in a beautiful rich blue (the one with the very subtle alligator print), and three more inks (two Diamine blues, Imperial and Midnight, and Aurora's black).

 

Trip #2, today - While I'm stuck at work, hubby goes BACK for a Cross Sauvage himself (after drooling over the blue one). He picks up the copper one, since they sold the last blue one to me. He picks up a Lamy Safari for me (the aluminum one), and another bottle of Diamine (Damson - looking forward to it!)

 

Current count: 16 pens, 10 bottles of ink, and the clear realization that this is a full-on case of pen addiction!

 

Eh...worse things could happen to me.

[Kate H]

Today, I received my 2010 LE Vanishing Point in the mail.

 

 

Took it out, and inked it up. Writes great right out of the box.

[jgrasty]

Not a pen, exactly, but a Pelikan M350 18k EF nib that bought off eBay. I'm putting into my M320 Orange Marbled pen. That pen has a M nib in it now, and it is just too wide for my taste.

[stine4115]

Received three NOS Sheaffer NoNonsense FP. Clear light green (F), Clear Red(M) and Clear Teal Blue (M).

[saltypete]

I received my Visconti Homo Sapiens in today's mail. I ended up going for a M nib and, so far I am really pleased with it. It is a fairly wet writer and tends to bleed through poor quality paper but on good paper it performs beautifully. I am considering posting a review on this pen, written from my perspective as a newbie to fps.

http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt290/tooflogged/ViscontiHomoSapiens003.jpg

 

 

Pete

[ethernautrix]

Yesterday, I ordered a Sheaffer 444 (XF) from TeriM (Peyton Street Pens), and it arrived TODAY! Granted, we're in two adjacent counties (pretty sure we're adjacent), but we're talking about the USPS, which I have pretty good experiences with anyway, but still! Yesterday! Today! That's fast!

 

The Sheaffer 444 is a nostalgic choice for me -- chrome w/ST -- and it is PERFECT! Hooray! Thanks, Teri!

[jakespoppy]

Yesterday, I ordered a Sheaffer 444 (XF) from TeriM (Peyton Street Pens), and it arrived TODAY! Granted, we're in two adjacent counties (pretty sure we're adjacent), but we're talking about the USPS, which I have pretty good experiences with anyway, but still! Yesterday! Today! That's fast!

 

The Sheaffer 444 is a nostalgic choice for me -- chrome w/ST -- and it is PERFECT! Hooray! Thanks, Teri!

 

Congrats on getting re-connected with a pen from your past. And one-day delivery? One-day would be amazing even if it was next door!

 

I picked up a 444 on eBay which had a confusing nib description. It was described as Medium, but was also tagged as Fine in another part of the listing. Either way, I love the pen, and believe it's a Fine nib but would like to know for certain. Can you see the nib marking on your pen? Maybe I'm just missing it.

[fountainpenjunkie]

Franklin Covey had a sale...

this is called a Lexington:

[ethernautrix]

Congrats on getting re-connected with a pen from your past. And one-day delivery? One-day would be amazing even if it was next door!

 

I picked up a 444 on eBay which had a confusing nib description. It was described as Medium, but was also tagged as Fine in another part of the listing. Either way, I love the pen, and believe it's a Fine nib but would like to know for certain. Can you see the nib marking on your pen? Maybe I'm just missing it.

 

Teri brought a 444 (F) to Pen Posse on Saturday, and it wrote more like a Medium, so she sent me one with the XF. I can't see any markings, either. The F that I tried (not the NOS one, but an inked one that she brought for me to try) wrote wide. The XF, to my eyes, writes like a true Western XF.

 

Maybe Teri can help you with a definitive answer (?). Her FPN name is terim.

[jakespoppy]

Congrats on getting re-connected with a pen from your past. And one-day delivery? One-day would be amazing even if it was next door!

 

I picked up a 444 on eBay which had a confusing nib description. It was described as Medium, but was also tagged as Fine in another part of the listing. Either way, I love the pen, and believe it's a Fine nib but would like to know for certain. Can you see the nib marking on your pen? Maybe I'm just missing it.

 

Teri brought a 444 (F) to Pen Posse on Saturday, and it wrote more like a Medium, so she sent me one with the XF. I can't see any markings, either. The F that I tried (not the NOS one, but an inked one that she brought for me to try) wrote wide. The XF, to my eyes, writes like a true Western XF.

 

Maybe Teri can help you with a definitive answer (?). Her FPN name is terim.

 

Thanks! I'll see if she can help me. Are you happy with the XF, or did you get the XF trying for one that writes like an F?